Bottle-retaining device for ice-boxes.



No. 894,736. PATEN'IED JULY 28, 1908.

N. B.. HASKINS.

BOTTLE RETAINING DEVICE FOR ICE BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1905.-

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NORTON B. HASKINS, OF ADEL, IOWA.

BOTTLE-RETAINING, nnvrcr: roa ICE-BOXES.

No. 894,736. r

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 28, 1908.

Application filed June 24, 1905. Serial No. 266,874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORTON B. HASKINS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Adel, in the county'of'Dallas and State of Iowa, haveinvented 'a certain new and useful Bottle-Retaining Device for IceBoxes,of which the following is a specification.

The objects of m vide a device for ho ding "bottles in a re igerator inposition where they are easily at:- cessible and from which thelowermost bottle is in such position tli'at it can be easily removedfrom beneath the other bottles which are above it, and to also providesuch a device sothat the supply may be alwa s kept A further'objec't isto provide a device of this class in which the lowermost bottlesv willbe kept colder than the other bottles, and hence will be in readinessfor use before the bottles above.

A further object is to rovide a mechanism for supportingthe bott esnearest the lowermost ottles at their free ends while these lowermostbottles are being removed.

A further object is to provide a device of this class which can beeasily placed in any of the ordinary refrigerators and which can beeasily removed therefrom, and further to providea protector which willcause the water dropping from the ice in the top of the refrigerator tobe carried to a point above the rear of the bottles and prevent it fromdropping onto-the labels.

A further object is toprovide compartments to receive bottles containingvarious substances, so that these substances can be separated from eachother, and the necessity of separating these bottles from each other,

every time a bottle has to be removed, is obviated. 3

My invention consists in: certain details in the construction,arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, Wherebythe objects contemplated-are attained, as

hereinafter more fully set'forth, pointed out in my claims andillustrated in the accompanying drawings in whichf- Flgure 1 is a frontelevation of my device in position in a refrigerator. Fig, 2 isavertical, sectional view of my device and the refrigerator. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of my device, and Fig.4 is a detail view of the springfor maintaining "the bottles in the various compartments in'position.

invention are to )rolower ends.

' Referring to the accompanying drawings, it'will be seen that there isprovided an ordinary ice box having an upper compartment 10 and a lowercompartment 11 which are separated from. each other bya perforate icesupporting member 12, at the front of which there is a door 13. In thefront ortion of the lower compartment there is a dbor made M in twoparts 14 and 15 which are hinged to the front of the ice box andbeneaththe door 13. Extending across the ice box beneath the. sup ort 12isa slide dri pan 16 which is incline from the front oft e ice box down-7 wardly as it approaches the rear ortion, and

an opening is-provided between t 1e rear edge of the drip pan-16 and theforward side of the back portion of l the ice box to provide an opening18 through which the water dripmg from the ice in the uppercompartmentwill be allowed to fall onto this drip pan and will flow rearwardly onthe pan through the opening 18 into the lower com artment.

Designed to be mounted in t e lower compartment 19 of the icebox is abottle case which is divided into a series of compartments 20, 21, 22and 23 which may be made of any desirable material and-in which theremay be any desirable number of compartments, provided these compartmentsareoi suflicient width and depth to permit the bottles being receivedinthem; These compartments are formed by a back portion 24 which has-theextensions 25 and 26 at its ends, which extensions 25 and'26 are atsubstantially right angles to the. backv portion 24 and parallel witheach other, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. Spaced apart between theextensions .25 and 26 I have provided the partitions 27, 28 and 29 toform the compartments 20, 21, 22 and 23. The portions of the extensions25 and 26 are secured together by the connecting piece 30 which is alsoconnected to the partitions 27, 28 and 29. At-

tached to the connecting piece 30 and in front of each of the various,compartments 20, 21, 22, and 23 is a cardholder 31 in which cards aredesigned to be placedto indicate the substance contained in the bottlesin the various compartments. Attached to the front edge of the extension25 is a retaining member 32 which is curved at .its upper and Attachedto the front .edge of the extension 26 is a retaining member 33 similarin construction to the retaining member '32. Both of these retainingmembers 32 and 33 extendfrom the part to which they n is attached, andinto the compartments 20 'and 21. partition 28 1s a retaining member 35which Attached to the front edge of the projects into the compartments21 and 22 and beyond each side of the partition 28. Attached to thefront edge of the partition 27 is the retaining member 36, which extendsat each side of the parts to which it is attached and into thecompartments 22 and 23. Each of these retaining members 34, 35 and 36are rounded at their upper and lower ends, as shown clearly in Fig. 3 ofthe drawings.

Pivotally attached to the lower portion of the retaining device 34 aretwo supporting members 37 and 38 which are maintained at their upperlimit of movement by means of the spring 39. Pivctally attached to thefront lower portion of the retaining member 36 are thesupports 40 and 41which are supported at their upper limit of movement by means of aspring 42 similar in construction to the spring 39. These supports 40and 41 may be made of any desirable material and in any way that isfound convenient for supporting the outer ends of the bottles when theyare placed in the various compartments 20, 21, 22 and 23.

When it is desirable to place the bottles, say of one kind of substance,such as vanilla soda water, and assuming that the compartment 20 was tobe used for this purpose, the bottles which would be slipped into thiscompartment would be taken one at a time and moved into the compartment20 above the retaining members 32 and 34 and allowed to move downwardlyuntil the neck of the bottle'rested against the support 37 'and theremaining bottles would be placed in the compartment until it wasfilled.When it is desirable to remove one of the bottles, the neck of it ismoved downwardly against the resistance of the spring 39 which maintainsthe neck of the bottles above the bottom of the compartment until theneck of this bottle is beneath the support 38 at which time the bottleimmediately above the one thus moved downwardly will be engaged by thesupport 38 and will be maintained in position while the lowermost bottleis withdrawn from the compartment. This operation is easily repeated andthe lowermost bottle easily withdrawn because of this arrangement.

In the bottom of the lower compartment of the ice box, and beneath thecompartments 20, 21 22 and 23 I have provided a small tank 43 in whichthe lowermost bottle in each of the various compartments normallystands.

This tank is to receive the cool water from the ice as it drips from theedge of the drip pan 16 through the opening 18, and to cool thelowermost bottle more rapidly and to keep it cool constantly while thedevice is being used. Then too, the bottles are all kept much cooler onaccount of the water passing over these bottles from the cake of ice inthe upper compartment 10 to the tank- 43. I have provided an outlet pi e44 from this tank 43 to prevent any overl ow of the tank except throughthis outlet pipe where it can be easily taken care of.

By the use of this device, the lowermost bottle; that is, the one whichis lowest in the various com artments 20, 21, 22 and 23 will be removedbefore those which are above it, and thus the coldest will be soldfirst. It is also my purpose to rovide a bottle case for ice boxes whichcan be made of any desirable size and which may have compartments ofvarious sizes, and which can be easily laced in or removed from theordinary ice ox or refrigerator.

Having thus described 111 invention, what I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, therefor is 1. A case forbottles, comprising a series of vertical compartments designed toreceive bottles, one above the other in each compartment, means forretaining bottles in each com artment, means for supporting the necks ofal bottles above the lowermost while the lowermost one is being removed,and a card holder at the upper portion of each compartment foridentifying the contents of the ottles in the compartments.

2. A case for bottles, comprising a series of vertical compartmentsdesigned to receive bottles, one above the other in each compartment,means for retaining bottles in each compartment, spring maintained meansfor supporting the necks of all bottles above the lowermost while thelowermost is being removed, and card holders at the upper ortion of eachcompartment for identifying t e contents of the bottles in thecompartments.

3. In an ice box, an upper and lower compartment, a bottle casedetachably mounted in the lower compartment, and a drip pan mountedbetween the upper and lower compartments with an opening between it andthe rear portion of the lower compartment.

4. In an ice box, anupper and lower compartment, a bottle case in thelower compartment, comprising a series of compartments, means forretaining the bottles in each compartment, so arranged that the bottlesmay be inserted into each com artment above the retaining means andwitiidrawn from it beneath the retaining means and the necks of thebottles will extend outside of the compartment.

5. In an ice box, an upper and lower compartment, a bottle case in thelower compartment, comprising a series of compartments, partment, andmeans for supporting the means for retainmg the bottles in each comnecksof the bottles above the bottom of the partment, soarran ed that thebottles may compartments.

beinserted into eac compartment above, the NORTON B. HASKINS.5'retaining means and Withdrawn from it be- Witnesses:

neath'the retaining means and the necks of S. T. SMITH,

the bottles will extend outside of the com- CORBAN SKINNER.

